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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
April 2017
Grant Title
Rockefeller University — Viral Histone Mimics (Alexander Tarakhovsky)
Organization Name
Rockefeller University
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$1,600,000
Date
April 2017
January 2020
Grant Title
Ought — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
Ought
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,593,333
Date
January 2020
March 2023
Grant Title
PATH — Malaria Vaccine Trial (2022)
Organization Name
PATH
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$1,591,687
Date
March 2023
May 2020
Grant Title
Future of Humanity Institute — Research Scholars Programme
Organization Name
Future of Humanity Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,586,224
Date
May 2020
March 2019
Grant Title
The Humane League — Open Wing Alliance (2019)
Organization Name
The Humane League
Focus Area
Cage-Free Reforms
Amount
$1,565,000
Date
March 2019
July 2017
Grant Title
University of Pennsylvania — Philip Tetlock’s “Making Conversations Smarter, Faster” Forecasting Project
Organization Name
University of Pennsylvania
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$1,550,000
Date
July 2017
October 2022
Grant Title
Funding for Effective Altruism-Related Translation Projects
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,545,047
Date
October 2022
July 2023
Grant Title
BlueDot Impact — General Support (July 2023)
Organization Name
BlueDot Impact
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,542,364
Date
July 2023
November 2022
Grant Title
AI Safety Support — SERI MATS Program
Organization Name
AI Safety Support
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,538,000
Date
November 2022
May 2017
Grant Title
UCLA School of Law — AI Governance
Organization Name
UCLA School of Law
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,536,222
Date
May 2017
June 2023
Grant Title
Apollo Research — Startup Funding
Organization Name
Apollo Research
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,535,480
Date
June 2023
November 2021
Grant Title
Working Families Organization — Prosecutor Accountability and Criminal Justice Reform (2021)
Organization Name
Working Families Organization
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
November 2021
January 2021
Grant Title
Stanford Existential Risks Initiative — Global Catastrophic Risk Education
Organization Name
Stanford Existential Risks Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
January 2021
February 2023
Grant Title
University of Washington — Tonsil Model for Tuberculosis Research
Organization Name
University of Washington
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
February 2023
November 2017
Grant Title
The Good Food Institute — General Support (2017)
Organization Name
The Good Food Institute
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
November 2017
January 2017
Grant Title
Fair and Just Prosecution — General Support (2017)
Organization Name
Fair and Just Prosecution
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
January 2017
January 2023
Grant Title
Washington University in St. Louis — Omega-3 Trial for Pregnant Women
Organization Name
Washington University in St. Louis
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
January 2023
March 2023
Grant Title
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center — Long COVID Therapy Trial
Organization Name
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
March 2023
December 2020
Grant Title
Founders Pledge — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
Founders Pledge
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
December 2020
February 2020
Grant Title
UC Davis — Malaria Gene Drive Feasibility Analysis (Greg Lanzaro)
Organization Name
University of California, Davis
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
February 2020
December 2013
Grant Title
Deworm the World Initiative — General Support (December 2013)
Organization Name
Evidence Action
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
December 2013
May 2020
Grant Title
Movement Voter Project — Criminal Justice Reform (2020)
Organization Name
Movement Voter Project
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
May 2020
March 2018
Grant Title
Compassion in World Farming USA — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Compassion in World Farming USA
Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
March 2018
February 2019
Grant Title
Fair and Just Prosecution — General Support (2019)
Organization Name
Fair and Just Prosecution
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
February 2019
November 2021
Grant Title
Stanford University — AI Alignment Research (2021)
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
November 2021
May 2023
Grant Title
Centre for the Governance of AI — General Support (2023)
Organization Name
Centre for the Governance of AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
May 2023
January 2021
Grant Title
Fair and Just Prosecution — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
Fair and Just Prosecution
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
January 2021
April 2019
Grant Title
Research Institute of Industrial Economics — Genomic Research Methods (2019)
Organization Name
Research Institute of Industrial Economics
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
April 2019
August 2021
Grant Title
Purdue University — Preclinical Data Research (Douglas Brubaker)
Organization Name
Purdue University
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
August 2021
October 2017
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — AI Safety Research
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,450,016
Date
October 2017
March 2022
Grant Title
Hofvarpnir Studios — Compute Cluster for AI Safety Research
Organization Name
Hofvarpnir Studios
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,443,540
Date
March 2022
November 2019
Grant Title
Working Families Organization — Prosecutor Accountability and Criminal Justice Reform (2019)
Organization Name
Working Families Organization
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$1,440,000
Date
November 2019
February 2023
Grant Title
Center for AI Safety — Philosophy Fellowship and NeurIPS Prizes
Organization Name
Center for AI Safety
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,433,000
Date
February 2023
February 2021
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Adversarial Robustness Research
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,430,000
Date
February 2021
December 2015
Grant Title
Center for Popular Democracy — Fed Up Campaign (2016)
Organization Name
Center for Popular Democracy
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$1,429,000
Date
December 2015
August 2023
Grant Title
University of Washington — Tuberculosis Research
Organization Name
University of Washington
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$1,425,475
Date
August 2023
November 2022
Grant Title
SecureBio — Biosecurity Research
Organization Name
SecureBio
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,420,937
Date
November 2022
September 2022
Grant Title
Center for Global Development — Staff for USAID Chief Economist
Organization Name
Center for Global Development
Focus Area
Global Aid Policy
Amount
$1,411,409
Date
September 2022
May 2021
Grant Title
Community Justice Exchange — Technical Assistance, Campaign Support, and Re-grants
Organization Name
Community Justice Exchange
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$1,400,000
Date
May 2021
August 2022
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — Follow-Up Research on Cash Transfers Study
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$1,397,102
Date
August 2022
July 2020
Grant Title
Early-Career Funding for Global Catastrophic Biological Risks — Scholarship Support (2019-2020)
Organization Name
Early-Career Funding for Global Catastrophic Biological Risks
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,394,530
Date
July 2020
August 2016
Grant Title
PICO National Network — Live Free Campaign
Organization Name
PICO National Network
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$1,394,250
Date
August 2016
November 2020
Grant Title
Compassion in World Farming — Farm Animal Welfare in Asia
Organization Name
Compassion in World Farming
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$1,391,971
Date
November 2020
July 2022
Grant Title
Funding for Projects to Estimate Biological Risk
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,391,169
Date
July 2022
March 2017
Grant Title
Humane Society International — East Asian and OIE Projects
Organization Name
Humane Society International
Focus Area
Cage-Free Reforms
Amount
$1,364,000
Date
March 2017
December 2021
Grant Title
Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,350,000
Date
December 2021
December 2017
Grant Title
L214 — Broiler Welfare Campaigns in France (2017)
Organization Name
L214
Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$1,347,742
Date
December 2017
May 2017
Grant Title
Stanford University — Support for Percy Liang
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,337,600
Date
May 2017
August 2017
Grant Title
Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention — General Support
Organization Name
Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention
Focus Area
Global Public Health Policy
Amount
$1,336,409
Date
August 2017
March 2017
